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      Kingston . How long I shall stay here I do not know . I write in such distress of mind I hope you will excuse all errors . With love to you and the dear children , believe me to remain your ' s most affectionately , Mary B . Pratt . " She then left her home at Hammersmith , attired in a straw bonnet , purple silk visite , and red silk gown ; she also wore a gold chain , attached to which wa « a locket , a gold brooch , a wedding ring , and two other rings . In this dress she passed a fisherman , who thought " what a beautiful woman she was , " and walked towards Kingston , finally throwing herself into the Thames . The body was found , conveyed to the Anglers , at Town ' send , at Kingston , and an inquest held . Mr . Nutt was

      examined at his own request . He had known Mrs . Fratt from a child . He had known her father , and a more worthy and upright man never lived . He was incapable of the act imputed to him , and with respect to himself , he had never acted otherwise than as a father to the deceased . " Was six months at his house before she married . He gave her away . Had seen both her and her husband several times since , and had no reason to doubt they were happy . She was a noble-hearted woman and of very sensitive mind , and he had no doubt such accusations would drive her mad . The Coroner , in summing up , exonerated the husband from the charge in the letters , on the evidence chiefly of the servant , we presume : and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary

      derangement . " A curious case was brought under the notiee of Mr . Coombe , at Clerkenwell . Leonora Valladier , described as a " fashionably dressed Frenchwoman , " wag brought up charged by M . C . L . Valladier , of 12 , Northumberlandstreet , Strand , with bigamy ; but as there was not sufficient evidence to justify the charge , she was discharged . She accused M . Valladier of having ruined her , by taking her away and living with her twelve months before he married her . On Tuesday Mr . Lewis applied for a warrant to re-apprehend Madame Valladier . She was accordingly re-apprehended and brought into court . Sergeant Archer produced the certificate of the first marriage , whieh was solemnized in the district church of St . in the of Middle

      James the Great , Bethnal-green , bounty - sex , on the 12 th day of March , 1846 , between Frederick Weymouth and Violante Leonora Alveratzzi ; the former described as a gentleman , and his father , Caleb Bryant " Weymouth , gentleman ; the father of Madame Alveratzzi was described by her as a Spanish grandee . Archer produced the certificate of the prosecutor ' s marriage with the prisoner , on November 30 th , 1848 , at the parish church of the Holy Trinity , Minories , in the liberty of the Tower of London , when she represented her father as a general in the Spanish army , and was married under the name of Leonora de Sauverello to F . C . Valladier . Two married women gave evidence in proof that Madame Valladier had been married to Mr . Weymouth , and that he was still alive . The case stands adjourned .

      The police had information on Wednesday , that a man named William Eastwood had attempted to murder his wife . A constable at once went to Mount Pleasant , "Wandsworth , to make inquiries . Eastwood , in explanation : — "I was sitting down at the table eating my supper , when my wife made use of some words , and as she was leaning over me the knife ran into her , and there is the knife , " pointing to one on the table . Brought before Mr . Beadon , evidence was adduced to show the nature of the wound in the breast , and the magistrate went down to Eastwood ' s house , and took the following deposition from Mrs . Eastwood : —

      " My name is Elizabeth Eastwood : I am the wife of William Eastwood . We live at the Point . I was sitting in my rocking-chair , between 9 and 10 o'clock last night , on the opposite side of the room to my husband . There was nobody else there . Some au ^ ry words paBaed while he was eating his supper , and he had his knife and his fork in his hands ; he run at me and stabbed me . I said , ' You have killed mq ; ' and he said , ' Oh , Elizabeth , don ' t say that . ' As I expect to die , that is th « truth . " The wounded woman then signed her deposition , and Eastwood was taken back to the court , from which he was remanded till Monday next .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . At the Court of Aldermen , on Tuesday , the Lord Mayor , according to ancient custom , nominated the following freemen of London to bo publicly put in nomination for the office of sheriff on Midauinuier-day : —Mr . John Thomas Norris , spectacle-maker ; Mr . Thomas Cotterell , cordwainer ; Mr . Thomas Shepperson , spectacle-maker ; and Mr . Jos . Turnley , merchant-tailor . The " departation" of pauper children to Bermuda came again before the Board of Directors of St . Jfancraa parish on Tuesday , when a letter was read from the Poorlaw Board , directing attention to a paragraph in the Globo relating to the departation of children . The Board of Directors were informed that without the express consent of the Poor-law authorities no le ^ al departation can be made . A resolution wan carried to the effect that " beforo the Board come to any ix'Holution relative to the emigration of any portions from the house notice uliall bo given of the same . " An extennivo fire broke out on Tuesday at the coal depot ( if the Birmingham < " » d Blackwall Railway , at the Caledonia-road , supposed to be owing to a aparkor piece of coke from the locomotive « u « inu lulling upon the extensive timber coal nliuteH ju « t finished . 1 'he flames threuteued not only to stop the- trafllc of the line , but alno the deutruction of the adjoining building belonging to Mr . Oubitt ' a brick-ynrd . Tito engine belonging to the Model Prison was itninediatoly brought out , and in a ftw minutes wu « in full uctivity , obtaining a bupplf of water from a well on Mr . Cubitt ' u jm ; niinc « . All fear of further damage , wiw at un end by three o ' clock . The Liverpool Mail nay « i that the clergy have fairly commenced a Hiimmor oampaign of open-air preaching . No regular plan has been laid down , but each utiuiatur

      intends to devote himself more particularly to the evangelisation of the poorer classes in his own district . The Rev . H . M . Mosse , curate of Christ Church , has been preaching in the neighbourhood of Islington Market , and the Rev . S . Minton , incumbent of St . Silas ' s , in Norman-street . On Friday evening last week the latter gentleman delivered a sermon to the crowds who , unable to gain admission to St . John ' s Church to hear the lecture delivered by the Rev , S . B . Lowe , remained in the yard outside . We understand that the Rev . F . Barker , of Edge-hill , and Dr . M'Nelle have also gone out into the " highways and hedges , " and that other ministers are about to follow their example . The nomination of candidates to supply the vacancy created in these united counties by the death of General Morrison , Clackmannan and Kinross , took place on

      Tuesday at Dollar . The election is contested by Mr . Adam , younger , of Blair-Adam , and Mr Johnstone of Alva . The two candidates addressed the electors at great length . Both professed themselves to be Liberals and Freetraders , and were loudly cheered by their respective partisans . A show of hands was then taken by the sheriff , which was declared to be in favour of Mr . Johnstone . A poll was demanded , and the polling is fixed for Thursday and Friday . The Bishop of Exeter has lately consecrated four new churches in hi * diocese . Notwithstanding the magnificent subscription raised by the Vicar of Rochdale , the Iosb to the depositors in the savings' bank in that town , by the dishonesty of the defaulter Howarth , will amount to more than £ 38 , 000 . The claims on the bank when stopped were £ 100 , 503 . — Manchester Courier .

      Lord Ashley is now a peer , and Bath will require a representative . Captain Scobell , R . N ., has offered hirncelf as a candidate on the Liberal interest . A meeting of the Liberal portion of the constituents was held on Wednesday , and it was resolved to adopt the necessary steps to secure his return . It is stated that Mr . William Sutcliffe , of that city , will be solicited by the Conservatives to contest the representation . Mr . Edmund Halliwell was returned on Friday week for Newry , without any opposition , although at the eleventh hour an opponent appeared in the perton of Mr . Hill Irvine , a retired merchant , and brother in-law of the celebrated John Mitchell . Mr . Irvine did not go to the polL _ _ _ _ .

      Mr . George Ryan , of Inch , high sheriff of the county of Tipperary , and a member of the Roman Catholic Church , has " respectfully declined" to convene a meeting of his bailiwick "to denounce the attempt made by Lord John Russell to revive penal laws . " The Poor-law Commissioners have authorised an advance of £ 2 , 000 from the rate-in-aid fund to the Kilrush Union , to aid in defraying the expenses of pauper emigration . A successful meeting of the Westminster Freehold Land Society was held on Tuesday , at the Rosemary Branch Tavern , Hoxton . A gun-barrel maker at Birmingham has been fined £ 290 by the magistrates of that borougli for counterfeiting the proof-house stamp upon twenty-nine barrels , beinsr £ 10 for each barrel .

      An arrangement has been made for carrying on postal communication between Liverpool and Belfast , via Fleetwood . The constabulary force has been considerably increased in some of the districts of the county of Down , owing to the resistance to the payment of ratea and other taxes in that county . The Srnithfield Market Removal Committee decided on Wednesday that , the preamble was proved .

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      The number of members of the provincial states of Prussia , which have just been convoked by the government is—33 princes , 245 knights , 182 deputies of towns , 124 of communes . The Giornale di Roma of the 24 th ult ., contains a proclamation from the Pro Minister Galli , raising the tax on foreign cotton from 6 bajochi ( 20 centimes ) to one soudo ( Gf . ) , in order to protect the ailk . trade of the Roman states . A riot had taken place at Florence on the 29 th ult . The people were fired upon , and two killed and seven or eight wounded . Hir W . Gomm arrived at ( Simla on the 12 th of April . He proposes to visit the Peahawur frontier next cold weather .

      The Governor-General of India has sanctioned the employment of 1000 men to level ground and inuke roads at Peshawur . From Cabul information has been received that Mahommed Ukram Khan and Gholam Hyder Khun , sons of Doat Miilioinmed , are obliged to lortify lliem-Helves in Bulkh , aa the people in the country round ha » c not acknowledged their rule . They have informed tlu'ir father that the Ameer of Bokhara has scut an army out against them , but that iu coiitetiiience of the want of boats , it nun been detained on the- banks of the river Ilamoon .

      The Nizam's dominion" lire in a worse state than evereven in the capital no law prevails but that of the sword . The Nizam's palace is beHieged by a Urge body of starving soldiery clamouring for their arrears , and throughout the districts the unpaid and disbanded troops art paying themselves by plundering the templet ! and inhabitant * , seizing ( in oa « instance ) the wumeu and children of a whole village till their deinaudt * are paid . Where i * the India Government ? The Calcutta Star unyu : —After all there it » a native of Bengal going to the Grand inhibition to represent Young Bengal . The individual iu Baboo Chunclerinohuu Chuturji'C , a nephew of the late Dwnrk . uiath Tagorr .

      News from China up to March 30 state that the rebels in the provinces next canton , were making head hucwbhfullr against the Kmperur'a troopu . Th « whole tract of country reported to be In poMeasiou of the in » urg « nt « is about the » iae of JKnglaud and WuIch united .

      The Southern Rights Convention , at Charlestown , hag concluded its sittings . The resolutions pointed to the secession of the South from the North . The United States frigate , St . Lawrence , sailed from Southampton for LUbon on Tuesday morning . On the previous day , at the invitation of Captain Sands , the Mayor and Corporation breakfasted on board . From Toronto we have intelligence to the 20 th of May . Parliament assembled on that day . The Governor stated in his speech that the revenues from customs and canals were increasing , and that the change in the imperial navigation law « had increased foreign shipping on the Canadian ports . „ . The latest mail from th « Cape brings nothing new Conflicts continue , but the war is really no nearer its termination .

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      A letter from San Francisco says : —" The eteamer Ohio , on her last trip from San Diego , brought into port an importation of cats , ninety-six in number . They cost , at the port of embarkation , about fifty cents , a head , and sell here from ten to twenty dollars each , according to size , sex , and general condition . A ' fellowpassenger' on the steamer told me they had a very musical time of ft . " A Highland ox , weighing 140 stone , bred and fed by Sir Thomas Seabright , of Beechwood-park , Herts , and selected by the celebrated cattle judge , Mr . Torr , of Aylesbury , was roasted in the Pr £ D'Orsav of Soyer ' s Symposium on Saturday , in commemoration of her Majesty ' s birthday , amidst an immense concourse of the nobility and gentry . The evening terminated with a series of pyrotechnic illuminated tableaux .

      A water-wagtail built its nest , this spring , in a chink of the outer wall of the saw-mill at Carron village . The large water-wheel is continually revolving during the day within four inches of the nest , in which the parent bird sat with the most perfect unconcern , "the dizzying mill-wheel having , " to all appearance , no effect upon its little brain . More curious still , owing to the close proximity of the wall and the wheel , the bird could not fly betwixt them , and actually , on entering or leaving her nest , flew through between the revolving epokes , at whatever rate the huge circle was revolving . —Dum / riet Courier .

      There is a certain district in the suburbs of Lassa , the capital of Thibet , where the houses are built entirely with the horns of cattle and sheep . These odd edifices are of extreme solidity , and present a rather agreeable appearance to the eye ; the horns of the cattle being smooth and white , and those of the sheep being black and rough . These strange materials admit a wonderful diversity of combinations , and form on the walls an infinite variety of designs . The interstices between the horns are filled with mortar . These are the only houses that are not whitewashed . The Thibetians have the good taste to leare them in their natural state , without endeavouring to add to their wild and fantastic beauty . It is superfluous to remark , that the inhabitants of Lassa consume a fair share of beef and mutton—their horn houses are incontestable proof of it .

      Marriage in Germany is preceded by the following ceremonies and forms : —First , proposal ; second , betrothal ; third , a public family dinner or supper of announcement ; fourth , the protocoling , or testimonials required by Government , being—I . a certificate of vaccination ; 2 . a week-day school ticket , in proof of regular attendance there ; 3 . a certificate of attendance upon a religious teacher ; 4 . a certificate of ronfirination ; <> . a conduct certificate ; G . a service book ; 7- a wanderbuoh ( this refers to the compulsory travels of their haudwerks

      burscheu , or handicraftsmen ) ; 8 . an apprentice ticket ; 9 . a statement made and Milifttantiated a . s to properly which , if not considered satisfactory , according to circumstances , destroys ttie whole thing ; 10 . a permission from the parents ; 11 . residence permission ticket ; 12 . a certificate e » s to t . tie due performance of militia duties ; 1 3 . an examiiiiition ticket ; 14 . a ticket of business or occupation at the lime . The higher classes have even more difficulties than these . Thus , a Bavarian officer cannot marry until he ban deposited enough to provide £ 40 per annum for his future family .

      A parliamentary return justissued puts us in possession of the following data relative to the strength , cost , and collections of the several Custom Houses in the United Kingdom in 184 !) . The London Custom-house of course stands preeminent , employing 2228 individuals at . salaries amounting in the aggregate to £ ' 271 , 213 10 s . 3 d ., and collecting u revenue of £ 11 , 131 , 317 Oh . 4 < 1 . Liverpool comes next , giving employment to 1 Ml permms-, who cost £ 100 , 311 3 s . 5 ( 1 .. and collect £ 3 , 474 , 202 3 a . ! M . Bristol rinptoyB 232 officials , at a cost of £ 17 , 133 2 h . / id ., and collecting £ 1 , 043 , 088 2 e . KM .. whiUt Hull , although having a force of 330 , coating £ 20 , 104 ¦ «» ., colleotn but 390 , 64 * 2 5 s . 2 d . Newcastle and Alanchtttit-r follow cloHcly together in value , the force ol the former bring 241 , costing £ 13 . 611 ) li ) s . 9 d ., with a revenue of" £ 317 , 41 ) 8 10 s ., while the figures for the latter are respectively 28 indivldualssalarieH £ 2503 ( is . 2 d . revenue £ 3 IU .. 'W 610 .- » . 2 d .

      . , Leith employs 281 officials at a charge of £ 14 / 210 13 d . Gd ., collecting £ . ) lf ) , K 84 17 » - 7 < J ., and GlaH « ow 133 perm . ii * , paid £ 12 , 81-4 6 » . 3 d .. collecting £ « 40 , S ( W 7 » . ¦>• ' Dublin find * employment for 244 lri < llvi < lu * lN at . » < hnrge of £ 16 , 480 lla . 3 d ., who collect £ M 3 , /) 7 . > !»«• H' « - H « lfatst ciituloyH 133 p « raon « , whose co « t in LH 242 l />« . 1 M ., eol-UctiiiK £ 34 < i . 426 IC » . ' M . ; whilat Cork ha « an establishment , of ' 2 <> > official * , receiving £ 927 » 7 « . 8 < i ., and yields but £ 'ir > l > , f >' < w . lOd . The muiunary iuny be thus Htutert---Cost of cuMtoiniT uHtablnluiieiit * in lOnglun . l and Walen , £ 65 () , 23013 « . Id . ; « . 'v « Miue £ l 8 fi 4 /> , 374 13 » . Id . Scotland £ 02 , 11 / 5 0 * . l « l . ; revenue , L 1 >> . ' > , « JO (> U * . KM . Ireland , £ 67 , 903 ' In . fid . ; revenue , £ 2 , lH () , 0 o 8 -Is . Gd Th « ai ' ue return f ^ iven the total value of lirh ' iKh and lriah produce , <*«¦ , exported from JLoridon in IK / JO , ns £ 14 137 / 527 , of which cotton goo < ln and yarn formed nor « th « u oB «*« ev « nlh part .

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      June 7 , 1851 . ] JCf ) £ Ufa tret . 535

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1851, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1886/page/11/